Spartacist League/U.S.
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The Spartacist League/U.S.[1] is a Trotskyist political grouping which is the United States section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), formerly the International Spartacist Tendency. This Spartacist League named themselves after the original Spartacus League of Weimar Republic in Germany, but has no formal descent from it. The League self-identifies as a "revolutionary communist" organization.
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Spartacist League/U.S. | |
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Founded | 1964; 60 years ago (1964) |
Split from | Socialist Workers Party |
Newspaper | Workers Vanguard |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
International affiliation | International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) |
Website | |
icl-fi.org/directory/slus.html | |
In the United States, the group is small but very vocal, and its activities within leftist-activist coalitions and wide-scale social justice protest movements usually focus on presenting a pole for regroupment and recruitment of subjective revolutionaries on the basis of an internationalist, Bolshevik-Leninist program.